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A person who carries some kind of staff.
However, they still haven’t attacked.
Were they thinking that the Five Dragon Warriors were my hostages?
Or is it that they feel like it would be bad news for them if they were to fight against the opponent who defeated “The Humanity’s Strongest” himself?
This is one of the weak points of a group who only have one person as their absolute commander.
If they were to lose their boss, their movement would become duller.
Such a group would often get weaker when their general were taken down.
That’s the first thing that I knew from the stories on the delinquent manga I’ve read before.
[Status Open.]
I called out my status to check my MP.
I took a quick glance at it.
The numerical value of my MP is decreasing at a tremendous speed for every second that passes.
It would be impossible for me to maintain this kind of situation for a long time.
[Let’s quickly end this, Pigimaru.]
[Pigii!]
The protrusions emitted phosphorescence after I injected magic energy unto it.
[Piigggiiiiiiiiiiii———!]
Basshhuuuuu!
Multiple protrusions began growing simultaneously spreading out towards the sunset-dyed skies.
They’re growing at a rapid pace.
[W- What the…!?]
A scene where countless amount of roots were stretching out towards the sky.
These protrusion strike fast as if they’re arrows flying as they approach the group of prey, the dragon knights.
[Kuhh!? Don’t be flustered! C- Cut them down—!]
Shhhiiinn!
One of the dragon knights tried slashing through the sky with his sword.
[Whaa!? They’ve stopped…!?]
The protrusion didn’t extend out towards the dragon knight and they suddenly stopped before they could reach their group.
The dragon knights look like they’re pretty confused.
They must have thought that those protrusions would swoop down on them because of how fast they’re flying.
The problem is the place where those protrusions have stopped.
They’ve stopped approximately 10 meters in front of the dragon knights who were flying in the sky.
That means…
They’re within the 20 meter range.
Extending out my hands toward the air.
Yes, from here on out—
[
They would be able to reach these guys.
[Nuuahhh!?]
[The dragon’s movement…!?]
[No… Even our… movement…!?]
Currently, half of Pigimaru is combined with “myself”.
Therefore, now that I’m in this situation where I’m connected with him—
The distance from the tip of the protrusions would become the basis of my 20 meter range.
[Kuh! Is it that strange tentacle’s ability!?]
Shhwwwinnng!
[You monster!]
The dragon knight who was slightly out of my range threw his sword.
Slaaaap!
One of the protrusions were slashed into two pieces.
[Tsk.]
I can’t help but click my tongue.
This is my first time using this in actual battle, so I’m still not accustomed to operating this tentacles yet.
There were some people that have leaked away from my skill.
I wasn’t able to properly judge the distance huh…
[Pigimaru, are you okay…!?]
[Pii♪]
[Hmm?]
The affirmative green color.
As far as I could see, he’s still quite lively.
He doesn’t look like he’s just enduring the pain.
This information wasn’t written in the Great Sage’s memo.
I quickly began thinking about this new information.
If Pigimaru in this kind of situation…
Would he only take damage when he’s attacked somewhere near his core?
As long as it’s away from his heart, he won’t be taking any damage.
Or perhaps, just a small amount of damage.
That’s all the damage he got though.
If he were to combine with me, it wouldn’t have been strange if it were me that was damaged when these protrusions were cut down.
If this is how it is…
[It might be fine if I’m a bit more confident.]
[Pii!]
[However, though I say that— make sure to tell me if it hurts, okay?]
[Pigyii!]
Bashhuuu!
As the paralyzed black dragons have fallen down to the ground, the protrusions began extending towards the still healthy black dragons in the back.
[D- Don’t come near meee—-!]
Ah, that’s right.
If it were from this range…
[
The remaining black dragons stopped moving.
Invoking Sleep towards them was a success.
The remaining black dragon began crashing down to the ground along with their riders.
It’s as if— I’m looking at a black rain.
Black dragons began slamming down towards the ground one after another.
Gushaaa!
[Guueeehhh!?]
Dosshhhaaa!
[Guuuooo!? Geeegggyyaaahhh!?]
The sunset sky that’s colored with blue and orange gradation.
The Black Dragon Knights who have fallen down into the Dark Forest.
It’s as if the light of this world were being consumed by this world’s darkness.
[Now then…]
It seems that some dragons have already broken their necks before I even invoked poison into them.
Even just crashing down to the ground inflicted quite a lot of damage.
However, that still won’t stop me.
I have to be thorough.
[
To these black dragons who were still alive even when they have crashed on the ground, I invoked poison towards them.
I further extended out my protrusion in another direction.
[Guuaaaa…]
Oban.
[I- Impossi… ble…]
Schweiz.
[Tou… kaaaa—-…!]
Civit.
I turned towards these Five Dragon Warriors who were still alive.
Before the paralysis gauge runs out…
I added another gauge on top of that.
[
After that, I could just alternate between paralysis and sleep until they would finally die.
Most of my opponents couldn’t handle this semi-infinite combo.
After all, this would work as long as my Abnormal State Skill works.
[……………]
With this, Sleep has finally caught up with my other level 3 skills huh…
[Hmm?]
Chapter 82
Inherited
New Abnormal State Skills.
So, they were unlocked huh…
However, I will postpone checking its detailed information for later.
I should first make sure that I’ve properly gotten rid of the Black Dragon Knights.
I should be able to finish this with just my previous skills’ semi-infinite combo.
[————]
Wait a sec…
I just thought of something.
This should be worth trying out…
It’s possible that it would be effective in getting rid of these people.
I don’t know when I could meet someone that I co
uld experiment on after all.
[Seras.]
[—Y- Yes?]
[If Oban attacks, can I ask you to deal with him?]
[Ah— I- I understand.]
She didn’t ask for any details nor reason.
Seras must still be feeling thankful.
I started moving my protrusions.
For the second time, I extended my protrusion towards Oban who is still breathing.
There were barely any amount left in the earlier paralysis gauge.
[
Oban’s body began convulsing violently.
Doddodddodddodddooo—!
[Guuggguuuuaaaaaahhhh…!]
Oban raised out a short scream.
His voice sounded like it’s corrupted with anger.
If he were to forcibly move while he’s paralyzed, he would receive a lot of damage.
I don’t know if my plan would work as I had expected but…
Bushhuuu!
It came.
Oban began spouting blood.
The new skill,
It’s probably a skill that increases the urge for violence on my target.
Urge for violence.
State of paralysis.
These two works in a combo.
The target would try to move because he can’t suppress the urge for violence within himself.
As a result, he would take a lot of damage due to the effect of paralysis.
This combo might even kill the paralyzed enemy faster than my poison…
This time, I brought my protrusion closer towards Schweiz.
Making my protrusion approach them is relatively safer.
I could avoid surprise attacks that they could be making while trying to act as if they can’t move.
Schweiz’s paralysis gauge has been depleted.
I invoked paralysis towards him again.
I also cancelled the effect of
Now, Schweiz should just be paralyzed.
Perhaps, this experiment with my skills is something that needs to happen.
[
Schweiz opens his eyes.
[…Ughhh… Nggh!? Wha… Night…? It’s… different!? My sense of sight… my eyes… my eyes—]
It’s a skill that shuts their field of vision into darkness huh…
It seems to be quite useful when I don’t want someone to see my appearance.
Depending on the range of this skill, I might be able to use this separately from
[Guugggoogggaaahhhhh…!]
[Nnngggguuuhhhh… —!?]
The two members of the Five Dragon Warriors were groaning in pain from the effect of the poison.
Oban tried to kill Seras for the money he would receive.
Schweiz tried to make Seras the plaything of his colleagues and subordinates.
Even if I were to use them as my lab rats, I wouldn’t be bothered.
I’m not the same as back then.
[Well then…]
The only one left now is
[—What the?]
I checked the status display.
The numerical value of MP was rapidly decreasing.
It would be troubling if this keeps going and my MP becomes zero.
I looked towards Seras and look at her current situation.
It seems that she was looking at the knights that were scattered about on the ground with a stiff expression on her face.
It doesn’t look like she looked at something upon noticing something pop out.
As I thought, this status display is only visible to me huh…
[Release the effect, Pigimaru.]
[Pii.]
I could feel the “roots” drawing away from both of my eyes.
Let’s see…
Should I leave the remaining skill that I haven’t used yet for later?
It would be troubling if it’s one of those types where it could interfere with the poison, putting aside checking it out when the target is paralyzed or asleep.
Freezing them might even slightly interfere…
Isn’t this just the same with the others as it takes away the target’s ability to move?
Fortunately, I still have other abilities that could incapacitate others like paralyze and sleep.
I want to be certain with its effect right now.
I could see the previous people groaning out their death throes.
[Gguuuueeehhhh…]
The black dragons of the Five Dragon Warriors have died.
Soon after, Civit’s white dragon had also died too.
[Giiieeeehhhh—]
As expected of the dragon that’s the mount of “The Humanity’s Strongest” himself.
It seems that he had given me quite a lot of experience.
I think it’s quite regrettable though that we could only get the experience points from monsters.
However, my MP is now completely recovered with this level-up.
At this point, I’m no longer troubled with my MP.
The other dragon knights were also dying one after another…
Majority of them have died while they were sleeping.
[It’s as if they’re literally sleeping for eternity.]
[That’s quite a dreadful power, isn’t it?]
[Hmm?]
Seras spoke to me.
[I was really surprised about your plan of deceiving Civit… I was also surprised when you combined bodies with Pigimaru-dono just now.]
The tone in which she spoke seems to be quite composed.
However, I could still hear some disturbance within her voice.
She may still be a bit absentminded after what she had learnt.
I quickly checked my surroundings.
[………………]
It should be fine if I speak with Seras for a bit.
I have something to talk about with her.
I can’t just talk about things while we’re in the middle of battle.
I want to quickly leave this place very much, but…
I still can’t leave this place.
It’s because I want to make sure that all of the enemies in this place will die.
[That previous ability I’ve used just now takes some time to activate, and it also uses up a ridiculous amount of magic energy. There are numerous restrictions if I want to use that ability.]
It’s just my MP that was higher than the other values in my status.
The cost of the power I’ve used just now would have been severe if my MP weren’t abundant enough.
Although it was still the status of an E-Rank Hero, it still helps that my status is something that could barely be called a Magic User-type (?) of status.
[Umm… That power that Pigimaru-dono used, is that also because of the power of a Hero from Another World?]
Seras asks hesitatingly.
I told about her before that she shouldn’t step into my circumstances.
Is she still worried because of the conditions I mentioned before?
If that’s the case, she really filled with integrity.
[The power of a Hero from Another World huh…]
The Monster Enhancer.
The method of manufacturing this was written in the “Encyclopedia on the Forbidden Arts”.
The one who wrote that was a Hero from Another World.
He was generally known as the Dark Hero.
He was also known as the Great Sage Anglin.
[Perhaps.]
I felt the cloth of the robe that I’m wearing.
[It may be possible to say that’s indeed the case.]
Chapter 83
Who the heck are you?
Seras looks toward the fallen Five Dragon Warriors.
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bsp; [I thought you were just a freeman, it was unexpected that Touka-dono was a Hero from Another World… That mysterious ability of him was also that sorcery that was rumored around this place. And, umm… Towards Alion’s goddess, am I going to be—]
[Don’t worry. I was exiled by Alion before.]
[I- Is that so?]
[To be exact, I was disposed of by the goddess because I was supposedly useless. Well, I think that goddess must have thought I have died where they disposed me.]
A reassuring smile floated on my face.
[That’s why, you don’t have to worry. I will never hand you over to that f*cking goddess.]
[F- F*cking goddess…?]
[Kuku, what else can you even describe her with?]
Seras bitterly smiled.
[You were expelled even when you held this much power, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx… However, I was pretty convinced after I looked at your mysterious ability.]
[If I could hide this story about myself being a Hero from Another World, I would have properly hid it. Well, I thought knowing this information might be useless for you… Anyway, we’re planning on parting ways somewhere, right? Sometimes, it’s better for someone to know about something. Rather than that, I wanted to thank you.]
Seras shakes her head.
[You don’t have to thank me… Ever since the Five Dragon Warriors appeared, I haven’t done anything at all. In the end, Touka-dono defeated them all.]
[It’s enough for me that you’ve fulfilled your duty as my guard.]
The Five Dragon Warrior were being more vigilant towards Seras.
Thanks to that, I was able to concentrate on those people flying in the sky without any worries.
[…………]
Seras had a lonely smile on her face.
It’s as if her mind was in another place.
I lightly tapped on Seras’ shoulder.
[Are you okay?]
[Ah, I’m sorry. It’s just… There were lots of information that came into my head at the same time… I’m still confused with all that happened.]
[It seems like you also have some things you’re troubled with… but well, you saved me some trouble when you took over watching over them for me earlier.]
[I thought that I couldn’t let you die.]
[Hmm?]
[I thought that… If I were to let Touka-dono die in this place while I was just absentmindedly thinking for myself, this time, I can never get back on my feet again…]
[…………]
[Or perhaps, this may just be the result of my body’s own self-preservation. So that I could protect my heart from self-destructing, I have to act and protect Touka-dono in this place. I think I’m acting under that pretense. If I couldn’t protect the benefactor who had saved my life— I’m sure that I can never forgive myself.]